What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.